Alley 6 Harvest Gin

Alley 6 makes gin the way a Sonoma winery would. Krystle and Jason Jorgensen founded their grain-to-glass distillery in Healdsburg in 2012 — a small, family-owned operation amid some of the best wineries in the land, with two 250-gallon copper alembic pot stills doing everything from milling to bottling on site — and Harvest Gin is their most Sonoma idea. It's a seasonal, limited release made once a year at harvest time from aromatic white wines: floral grape juice from local wineries is fermented and pressed at the distillery, then distilled in direct-fire copper alembic stills to keep the wine's aromatics intact, then run one final time through a column still where the botanicals are vapor-infused in a basket. The bill is local by design — California bay laurel and wild fennel harvested nearby, alongside juniper and a supporting cast of botanicals. The result is a grape-based gin with a floral, aromatic lift that grain-based gins can't reach: expect white flowers, fresh fennel, and bay leaf on the nose with juniper and a faint muscat-like fruit note, opening into a soft, round, complex palate with herbal California character and a clean, lightly floral finish. It took Gold at the 2022 Los Angeles Invitational Wine & Spirits Challenge. A wine-country gin, superb in a Martini with a lemon twist, a G&T with a fennel frond, or a Bee's Knees. Made in small batches; each harvest is a little different.

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